# mcp-arr MCP Server

MCP server for *arr media suite - Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, Prowlarr

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled mcp-arr yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `mcp-arr-server` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**12 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 9.

### Most discussed

### Build & publish Docker image to GHCR via CI

A `Dockerfile` already exists, but no image is published — users have to `docker build` locally. This is the image-publishing gap noted in #5.

**Proposal:** add a CI job to build and push to GHCR (`ghcr.io/aplaceforallmystuff/mcp-arr`) on release/tag (`latest` + version tags), multi-arch (`amd64`/`arm64`), and add a `docker run` example to the README.

Related: #5, #10, #7

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aplaceforallmystuff/mcp-arr/issues/27) · 2026-06-30 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Stateless HTTP transport deadlocks SDK clients (n8n): standalone GET SSE stream holds runSerialized() mutex,   tools/list times out (-32001)

### Summary

  In HTTP (`MCP_TRANSPORT=http`) mode, stateful MCP SDK clients — e.g. n8n's `MCP Client Tool` node, which uses the
  official `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk` client — connect successfully (`initialize` returns) but then **hang on the first
  `tools/list` and fail with `-32001 Request timed out`** after the SDK's 60s timeout.

  Single-shot `curl` POSTs work fine, which masks the bug. The difference is that a real SDK client opens the **optional
  standalone `GET /mcp` SSE stream**, and

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aplaceforallmystuff/mcp-arr/issues/24) · 2026-06-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Upgrade MCP SDK: migrate to current API (server.tool(), per-session state, 2025-11-25 protocol)

## Summary

The server has several structural issues rooted in the old `setRequestHandler` + `TOOLS` array + `switch`-dispatch pattern and a shared single-server HTTP model that serializes all requests through a mutex. These cause real operational problems: tool calls silently return no results after an mcp-arr container restart, and the server cannot handle concurrent MCP clients.

We hit a **live outage** where all 63 arr tools returned no results because a container restart dropped the shared

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aplaceforallmystuff/mcp-arr/issues/23) · 2026-06-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### http transport: single shared stateful session breaks behind a per-request MCP gateway

## Summary

In `src/index.ts`, `startHttpServer()` constructs a single shared `StreamableHTTPServerTransport` with `sessionIdGenerator: randomUUID` and reuses that one instance for every request:

```ts
const transport = new StreamableHTTPServerTransport({
  sessionIdGenerator: randomUUID,
});
// ...
transport.handleRequest(req, res); // same instance, all requests
```

Because the transport is stateful (a `sessionIdGenerator` is set) and there is only **one shared instance**, the first `initial

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aplaceforallmystuff/mcp-arr/issues/21) · 2026-06-12 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Please provide instructions on how to run via Docker

Please provide instructions on how to run via Docker (or ideally a docker-compose.yaml.

Thanks!

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aplaceforallmystuff/mcp-arr/issues/10) · 2026-04-04 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Feature request: add Readarr support

## Description

Readarr is not currently supported by mcp-arr — it is not mentioned in the README and no Readarr-specific MCP tools are exposed, even when `READARR_URL` and `READARR_API_KEY` environment variables are set.

## Expected behavior

- Readarr should be detected when `READARR_URL` and `READARR_API_KEY` are set and appear in the configured services list
- Readarr-specific tools should be exposed (e.g. `readarr_get_authors`, `readarr_search`, `readarr_get_books`, `readarr_add_author`, e

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aplaceforallmystuff/mcp-arr/issues/13) · 2026-05-15 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Feature Request: Add docker container to unraid Community Apps

Unraid community apps: https://unraid.net/community/apps#community-apps-iframe

Include container variables like SONARR_URL, SONARR_API_KEY etc so we don't have to update the config file, which would essentially make it a turn key solution.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aplaceforallmystuff/mcp-arr/issues/7) · 2026-03-21 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Duplicated tools

Hi, 

The MCP is giving me duplicated tools.

```
1.  arr_status
2.  sonarr_get_quality_profiles         ← DUPLICATE (also #25)
3.  sonarr_get_health
4.  sonarr_get_root_folders              ← DUPLICATE (also #24)
5.  sonarr_get_download_clients
6.  sonarr_get_naming
7.  sonarr_get_tags
8.  sonarr_review_setup
9.  radarr_get_quality_profiles          ← DUPLICATE (also #33)
10. radarr_get_health
11. radarr_get_root_folders              ← DUPLICATE (also #32)
12. radarr_get_download_clients
13. ra

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aplaceforallmystuff/mcp-arr/issues/6) · 2026-03-05 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND

When I try to run the server I get this error

❯ npx -y mcp-arr-server
node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:873
  throw new ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND(packageName, fileURLToPath(base), null);
        ^

Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package '@modelcontextprotocol/sdk' imported from C:\Users\joshu\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_npx\de1fb1a3c49e17d8\node_modules\mcp-arr-server\dist\index.js
    at packageResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:873:9)
    at moduleResolve (node:internal/modules/esm

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aplaceforallmystuff/mcp-arr/issues/3) · 2026-02-26 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 12 reports Pod holds for mcp-arr](/mcp/mcp-arr/issues).

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